Document leaked out in August indicate that family planning measures in China are far from voluntary

Epoch Times
Nov 21, 2009
By Gary Feurerberg

WASHINGTON—Two days prior to President Obama’s departure for his Asian trip, which included four days in the People’s Republic of China, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a press conference and hearing, Nov 10, on China’s one-child policy. Chaired by Congressman Chris Smith from New Jersey, the participants at the press conference were hopeful their testimony on China’s coercive and often violent family population controls would reach the President and influence his discussions with Chinese communist leaders.

“…we appeal to President Obama: seriously raise the plight of Chinese Women who are every day cruelly and systematically assaulted by population control police. China’s population control policy is violence against women and violence against children—by the hundreds of millions. It is the worse violation of women’s rights in human history,” said Representative Smith.

Congressman Smith stressed that opposing forced abortion is not a partisan issue. Reggie Littlejohn, president of “Women’s Rights Without Frontiers,” said, “The one child policy is an issue about which pro-life and pro-choice people can agree. No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.”    more …